Going down Surprise! Women like receiving oral sex (almost) as much as men do. By Virginia VitzthumMay 30, 2000 | A few weeks ago in this space, “Dylan Edwards” extolled the virtues of “snacking.” His message to my gender: We love eating you out, so lie back and let us. Not fighting words, no, but nevertheless only one side of the oral issue. For balance, I asked a small sample of women to weigh in, to provide the vox snap.
As usual, it’s not as easy for women to get there. Oral-sex questions got us talking about power, the G spot, love, masturbation, trust, types of orgasm, reciprocity, food and the movie “Run Lola Run.” All we agreed on is that we fully support Edwards’ position. In fact, Edwards and his friends seem too good to be true. They are in favor of the oral-sex component that’s lacking from our Franken boyfriends and Franken husbands.
Did these guys burst full grown from Eve Ensler’s, um, forehead, never once thinking it was gross, or at least obligatory? Memories of hearing for the first time that people put their open mouths on either kind of genitalia were disturbing to most of my interviewees. I remember my first friend to get eaten out telling a rapt audience of 14-year-old girls that it felt great, “but when he kisses you afterwards, you taste it.” We all squealed in horror. We got over it. My sample (10 ladies ages 28 to 45, interviewed orally or by e-mail) can’t imagine sex without giving and getting head. And despite what the male doctor in Edwards’ article says, we haven’t generated “negative stories” about our pussies just because they ” re neatly tucked away. We ” ve squatted over the mirror and we were not overcome by penis envy or hysteria or existential terror of the swampy void.
The Essay on Tmj and Oral Sex
I thought I had a tooth problem since my jaw hurt like hell and I could barely open my mouth. Apparently, I was wrong. What I have is Temporomandibular joint syndrome – otherwise known as TMJ. As you can probably guess, this condition interferes with quite a few daily activities – eating, talking, yawning, even smiling. Perhaps, though, the most disappointing activity TMJ interferes with is giving ...
We ” re happy but realistic about the groceries we sit upon. Edwards rightly acknowledges longtime misogyny when he urges women to “overcome outdated ideas of their own bodies.” But even vagi no-positive womyn don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. We ” re the ones who go through childbirth and get yeast infections and bleed for five days without dying. Let’s face it, it can get funky down there. We’d probably worry about “freshness” even without those TV ads. Men, it seems, are less finicky than women, and we snacks couldn’t be happier.
Peaches writes that “guys did it during my period, even after I warned them they should avoid the area! It must be a macho thing in some way.” Most of the others have been snacked on while on the rag (a practice known in some circles as “Buffalo winging”), with Little Debbie an adamant exception. She needs to “be recently bathed” to let a guy go down, though nobody’s ever disparaged her smell or taste. Strawberry was one of the only interviewees to have had hygiene guidelines imposed on her. Her college boyfriend “would only eat me right after I showered,” she writes, “and once we’d screwed, I was inedible until my next shower. I teased him that he’d prefer me boiled for complete sterilization, which became our shorthand: ‘Are you boiled?’ ‘It’s safe, I’m boiled.’ ” Acceptance Arts Business English Foreign History Medical Miscellaneous Movies Music Novels People Politics Religion Science Speeches Sports Technology Top 25 School Sites!
